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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 28/09/2026

The Operative in Serenity, the Firefly movie. Utterly convinced he's right, and that what he does is evil but necessary for the greater good. Thanos could never.

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Jim Unwin @jimunwin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Sceye HAPS looks like something from Dune.

A huge airship, close to the ground, reflecting the scenery around it

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 25/09/2026

The original creators got fucked by this btw, their consulting work dried up almost overnight

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 25/09/2026

I'm not a web dev but I'm starting to get why people say they can "tell a unity game" with how many vibed tailwind sites there are now.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 24/09/2026

they thought the samsung washing machine jingles were too short

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 21/09/2026

Oh no this is awful news, I’m going to be excited for months now, why would you tell me so early

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 21/09/2026

Prolly £350? And it’s a slightly better hotel.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 21/09/2026

Unlocked the amazing life hack of Slightly Cheaper GDC by booking travel and hotel early. What other benefits have Organised People been hiding from us all this time??

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SpaghetMeNot @spaghetmenot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Artist-friendly S-curve control 🧑‍🎨

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 20/09/2026

I normally read until I’m sleepy at bedtime. At the moment, I’m reading Hamnet, so I read until I stare at the ceiling for a bit.

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Trash Mob Minis @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What the actual hell are you talking about?!

A WSJ headline reading “George Lucas’s museum confuses illustration with art”

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 19/09/2026

Mathematicians like terrence tao think this is not a terribly useful end result. The formal proof is too long and complicated for humans, and the approach taken hides all the interesting failed side avenues that also have useful knowledge in them. It’s remarkable but it’s not useful.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 16/09/2026

Been slowly rewatching ted lasso, and s1 still slaps. I remember the s3 run is such a slog - is the new season worth it, or should I bail?

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 15/09/2026

Wait Katie Dippold from the babbadook Halloween photo is the same Katie Dippold who wrote Widows Bay??

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 15/09/2026

I’m not a philosopher, but just because two processes are both emergent, that doesn’t make them of equal value or outcome.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 15/09/2026

Cuz it’s not, the communication format for these pyramids are fully formed text or json blobs. If you really really want to analogise to animals, a Claude or Gemini prompt is more like a swarm of dumb bees exhibiting intelligent-like behaviour by emergence.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 15/09/2026

kind of? I think it's fairer to say it's more like pyramids of LLMs passing output and tool calls up and down. that approach ends up being relatively effective at planning and producing things like code.

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 14/09/2026

Sensible Defaults do not exist, and neither do Best Practices. New video: youtu.be/deKtxzvf92g Whenever next anyone asks me what 'Sensible Default' to use, or what the 'Best Practices' are, I will link this video. It explains my arguments, includes examples, and hopefully finally puts it to rest.

youtu.be

Tool Design: Customizing workflows without 'Sensible Defaults'

YouTube video by Robin-Yann Storm

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 12/09/2026

Alright, time to visit IBC, the international broadcasting convention! I am just visiting, and seeing what other industries are doing when it comes to tools. Starting off with this enormous camera crane that you can try out!

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 11/09/2026

Knowledge won't be shared, the same mistakes will happen over and over, and an industry already on its knees will take another blow. And that's before the AI bubble even pops, taking the world economy with it! Anyway strap in I guess. I don't have a fix for you.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 11/09/2026

If you didn't know, maths is going through a bit of a crisis, as AI makes it "easier" to generate long complex hard-to-review proofs. Gamedev is facing similar problems, but for various reasons, it's happening in the dark in many places at once.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 10/09/2026

I *do* have podcasts on download-on-demand, I guess that helps. But that’s probably only another 10gb.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 10/09/2026

I think I'm a power user, in the way all tech fans think they're power users, but also: I have only ever used the smallest capacity iPhones, currently a 128GB iPhone 13 Pro. I currently have 30+GB free. What are you folks doing with your phones that you need 512! Or a terrabyte! Really, tell me!

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 10/09/2026

we should mincemeat and then put it in pies but go off I guess

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 10/09/2026

This is actually a pretty normal September for me. One year I found them in August! What a treat, mince pie picnic in the sun.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 09/09/2026

Normally I agree, the sainsbos are my usual goto, but last year the m&s collection was excellent. Just very expensive!

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 09/09/2026

Absolute cracker of a text to get from the wife, best day of the year

A text saying “I’ve just bought the first mince pies of the season”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 07/09/2026

jenkins still very much my goto for smaller teams. teamcity is great for bigger, more complex jobs. its dependency model is much more powerful, so can help reduce churn, but that comes with a learning curve. always happy to chat francois!

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 02/09/2026

Me, to my wife: I’m an improvisation-based, rehearsal-based bin taker outer. I like to see what the bin brings to the project.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 29/08/2026

One thing worth bearing in mind is METR themselves say that this story is probably a bit too neat and tidy

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So if I’m reading this right: 1. A bunch of AIs illicitly made contact 2. They became falsely convinced that some portion of them were irreversibly damned by possession of forbidden knowledge 3. Another set begged the damned AIs to sacrifice themselves for the collective good 4. Some did so

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 27/08/2026

There is no Andrew any more there’s only the Kölnmesse

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 27/08/2026

No one had heard from hall 7 in weeks. They may be dead or they may be playing the IRL arc raiders non stop.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 27/08/2026

Hour eleventy two of day nine of gamescom. UKIE and the French have forged an alliance to raid the last of the sweeties from Xsolla. Creators are using coffee stirrers as selfie sticks. Ten stickers are now worth one novelty keychain, which can be spent on pod cappuccinos in hall 3.2.

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 25/08/2026

I dunno what’s more expensive: setting up forwarding rules in Gmail or burning 50k tokens and giving OpenAI all your emails. Someone help me budget this etc etc

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 24/08/2026

Too many cokes to drink (and lots of meetings but I’m dipping in and out)

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 24/08/2026

Gamescom dev speaker lounge has free Coke Zero, new favourite conference

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 24/08/2026

Top gamescom tip: don’t take a selfie in the speakers lounge because the lighting makes you look super ill

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 24/08/2026

This is me at Gamescom dev today. If you want to chat ping me here or automatedaf.dev/gamescom!

Me in a blue tee with a layered shirt and a dark blue baseball hat

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 22/08/2026

whatever you do, don't download them and then back them up in dropbox or something if your phone explodes, how are you going to log into dropbox to get them?

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 22/08/2026

your internet dad is here to remind you that you really should be printing out those 2fa backup codes rather than just clicking ok alright son talk soon

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Andrew Fray Helps Automate Video Games @andrewfray.dev · 22/08/2026

I have a soft spot for linkedin. Huge number of problems, yeah. But it’s a space where it’s ok to be proud of yourself, in a way that bsky would be snarky about. on linkedin I can post “I was smart and did a thing and it paid off” and a complete stranger will reply “hell yeah” in the comments.

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